The system of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has long been formed, especially the military law department under Zhang Huangyan's responsibility. Most of the military law was decided by Chen Wen on Dalan Mountain and Tiantai Mountain. According to environmental changes, military law has been continuously adjusted and added, and the process of regulations has long formed certain rules.

The advanced nature of the system, especially the execution ability, is the basis for the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Ming Army to develop step by step from a small army of only five or six hundred people to such a behemoth today.

The system strengthened the military's orders and prohibitions, prompting soldiers to endure even greater casualties, and also increase the utilization rate of limited materials, thereby achieving a small profit. Among them, the individual's strength is minimal. Zhang Huangyan's presidency of the Military Law Department was able to set an example, strictly enforce and implement military laws and regulations, which was beneficial to the army, but it was not as exaggerated as Chen Wen said.

However, when Chen Wen said this, Zhang Huangyan also sighed. In the past few years of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the vitality here was definitely not the smoky and chaotic courts of the Lu Supervisory State, even fighting for power and even fighting, not to mention the Yongli court, which staged a farce of escape whenever there was a stir.

Here, everyone stands in their own position and does their best to do their duty, thus pushing the war machine of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to crush everything ahead into powder.

In such an environment, it is much more comfortable than the Ming court, who has never forgotten the intrigue at the moment. Zhang Huangyan knew that this was the real place to do things. If it were the ones who had the most hope of expelling the Tartars and restoring the Han world, he would not have a second thought.

However, such a group has developed to this day, and all kinds of welfare and resources have been achieved by depriving all vested interests within the Ming court, such as royal palaces, garrisons, and gentry. Because of this, Chen Wen and his subordinates will never let these things rekindle, because when they recover their vitality, they will inevitably ask the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to repay everything they have lost, and all this is reflected in the contradiction between embracing the Ming Dynasty and changing dynasties.

Zhang Huangyan was a Confucian scholar and a juren from the Ming court. He was a member of the Confucian landlord class. He must support the Ming court in terms of class attributes. However, he has been in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for a long time, but he is very clear that if he wants to expel the Tartars, he still needs to rely on this monster called the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Intra-fighting by other forces is not enough, and he cannot count on it at all.

In this way, on the one hand, it is the right of the monarch and minister, and on the other hand, it is the defense of the barbarians and the summer. The two sides are intertwined, and Zhang Huangyan's heart is constantly tortured by these two Confucian thoughts. Until today, after venting, he felt much more comfortable when he heard Chen Wen's words.

"Thank you, Fu Ren. I will do my best to expel the Tartars."

"You don't have to be polite. Everyone has their own ambitions, and I will never force it."

The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world. The Ming court has been established for nearly three hundred years, with a corrupt system, a greedy royal palace, a shameless gentry, and the military leaders who have caused trouble have already broken the beams and woods of the building. Otherwise, Li Zicheng would not have easily taken the capital and issued an edict from the north.

The current Southern Ming Dynasty has not been able to support it until now, but it has not been a great effort to manage it. It has completely shaved her hair and changed her clothes to arouse the idea of ​​defending the barbarians and summer. When the world returns to peace and corruption once again covers the land of China, it will be a world chaos in a short time.

This is the reason, but for Zhang Huangyan, Chen Wen's sudden emergence in Jiangsu and Zhejiang saved his life, but he also said goodbye to the three heroes of West Lake. He was loyal to him for the sake of the world, or to continue to watch over the Ming court for the sake of loyalty to the emperor. Chen Wen was unwilling to torture Zhang Huangyan for this. Everyone had their own ambitions, and Chen Wen gave Zhang Huangyan the only one in this contradiction with the best of both worlds.

At the end of this day, in the Qi Palace, except for the senior officials who intentionally or unintentionally began to keep a distance from Zhang Huangyan, everything seemed to have never happened.

The trade blockade against the Dutch was determined, and the order was issued, and the Maritime Bureau was conveyed to the coastal ports of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. The governments in various places also attracted local maritime merchants and ordered them to stop all trade with the Dutch. If there was any violation, they should be treated as a communist.

Chen Wen's support for Zheng Chenggong was soon responded by Zheng Chenggong. Tens of thousands of Fujian Ming troops drew their anchors and took a boat to southern Taiwan to increase military farming, declare war on the Dutch and Taiwan's indigenous tribes. At the same time, the two fortresses between Zhangzhou and Chaozhou were demolished, so that the power would be done is to be used.

The focus of the Ming army in Fujian turned to Taiwan, and the military pressure of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in Fujian and eastern Guangdong was sharply reduced. However, according to information, it seems that the prince of Yanping County Prince was not satisfied with this, and there is a possibility that his father's actions were not serious and put the cart before the horse.

This result will not be revealed in a few months. Before that, Chen Wen took the lead in issuing a creative decree to add a newly produced silver product from a coin workshop to the circulating currency. Her name is silver dollars.

"Silver is used for circulation, with different colors, different sizes, and different shapes. It often requires special tools to measure it, which is really inconvenient. It is specially changed to add silver dollars of the same color, size and shape pattern to the circulation channel. The silver dollars are made of nine silver and one copper..."

"Since the 13th year of Yongli, the salaries of officials and soldiers and military salaries were paid in silver dollars. Starting from summer tax, tax collection was changed to silver dollars and copper coins to settle together. The silver exchange rate could be exchanged on the general number of the Guangfu Piao number in each government, and the date of issuance of government orders is the beginning of the exchange of the government..."

"Silver dollars are different from silver ingots. They are melted privately. The recaster is the same as forgery. The first offender is punished by the three clans, and the accomplices are beheaded and displayed in public..."

The officials of the prefecture, county yamen, and civil servants of the hundreds of townships and townships were posted, and then the government orders were posted to ordinary people through their mouths. Silver dollars were put on the market, but in order to prevent the run, Chen Wen decided to issue government orders first, open private exchanges, and then use the salary and tax collection after a period of time, so that the people can have a time to prepare for the emergence and use of this currency.

"There are already silver ingots and silver dollars, and His Highness Qi wants to eat the profit of coins. After the deposit, the silver dollar will not reach the ratio of nine silver and one copper at the beginning."

"Brother Hou's words are reasonable, but His Highness King Qi's actions also benefit the people. Don't say too much, you must know that they are holding a knife."

"Hmph, a martial artist, let him be arrogant for a while. When the world is settled, the emperor returns to the palace and the imperial examination will be reopened, sooner or later, we scholars have the final say."

The government orders were issued, and the public responded differently. Fortunately, Chen Wen has been in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years and still has credit. When the exchange began, people and merchants went to the tickets to exchange. However, when they actually got the physical goods, they found that Chen Wen used such methods and his ambition was probably even more terrifying than they thought.

"His Highness of the King of Qi is probably not as simple as promoting the silver dollar. He wants to abolish the two and change the Chinese Yuan."

The silver dollar is of equal size, which is a perfect circle. On both sides of the silver dollar, one side is a dragon stretching out its front claws, and is surrounded by a circle of cloud patterns; on the other side, it is a regular script Chinese character divided into inner circle and outer circle, with round and protruding inner circle. The four characters Yongli Tongbao are listed on the upper and lower sides, while the outer circle is written in Nanjing coins in the upper book, the lower book is seven cents and two cents in the lower book, and the middle is the two characters Wuxu are listed on both sides.

Not to mention the threads surrounding the side, the dragon alone cannot be easily forged. Even if it can be forged successfully, the cost will not be much lower.

"Abolish the two and change the original state? It's not like that. Silver ingots have been circulated among the people for hundreds of years, but for thousands of years, how could they be so easily destroyed?"

"Brother Zhong's words are not bad. People have always used copper coins, and even grain and cloth are mostly used as currency. Silver ingots, Brother Zhong is a wealthy family, and may have used them more by his ancestors, but after the Longqing Dynasty switch was turned on, the silver from Taixi appeared. Even if there were talents like Zhang Jiangling, if there were more and more silver on the market, it would not be possible to use that whip method."

Chen Wen rose in the early stage of eastern Zhejiang, with fiscal revenue restricting the expansion of the army. He used a brigade to fight against the powerful enemy. The taxes and bonds collected, the confiscated dirty silver and the Qing government's inventory were often entered into the warehouse, and he had to take out the raw materials and pay military salaries. However, later, especially after the early investment of Jiangxi's people's livelihood recovery, more and more deposits in the warehouse. In the past two years, he received the savings of Geng Jimao, Shang Kexi and Sun Kewang, and the amount of silver in the warehouse reached an unimaginable order of magnitude.

Now, the Mint in Nanjing is working day and night. The exchange is just the beginning. Chen Wen has no intention of forcibly abolishing the two-dollar change. At least it is not the time. Silver and silver dollars will be circulated together for a long time, and Chen Wen can afford to wait because waiting will gain greater benefits.

The government orders sparked discussion among the people, but another military order in the army began to be quietly implemented. For a long time, the naval system of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was divided into Zhejiang Inland River Naval Division, Zhejiang Coastal Cruise Naval Division, Jiangxi Poyang Lake Naval Division, Jiangnan Inland River Naval Division, and the South China Sea Fleet composed of Guangdong Ming Army and captured ships.

Compared with the mainland divisions that dominated China by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the system of the navy was more chaotic, but after that, this situation will also end.

"The coastal naval divisions, stationed in Nanzhili, Zhejiang, were reorganized into the Navy East China Sea Fleet with Zhoushan, Zhejiang as the main base; those stationed in Guangdong were reorganized into the Navy South China Sea Fleet with Guangzhou Fucheng as the main base. The inland naval divisions, stationed along the Yangtze River, were reorganized into the Yangtze River cruise fleet, and were directly under the jurisdiction of the Qi Palace; those stationed in the inland rivers of various provinces are still called the inland river naval divisions of various provinces...

"The East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet, and the Yangtze River Cruise Fleet are division-level combat units. The sub-squadrons and the inland water divisions in each province are battalion-level combat units..."

"From now on, the East China Sea and South China Sea fleets and their ships will be reviewed and tested. Those who are not suitable for warriors to go out to sea will be temporarily concentrated and wait for the appropriate time to be handed over to the Inland Waters Division in their province for use. The scale of the naval fleet remains unchanged, and the ships that are short of will be added separately..."

Since then, the term Navy no longer appeared in the document exchanges between the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and only the names of navy, fleet, and squadron. However, the change is not only the name change, but more importantly, the establishment of the navy's status. The ships that were lacking will also be built with drawings acquired from Taixi, imitating the regulations of European warships while inheriting the advantages of Chinese warships, realizing the combination of Chinese and Western one plus one greater than two.

Unlike the army, the navy requires longer accumulation time. This is not only the construction time of ships, but more importantly, the naval tradition and the spirit of the navy, which is not as easy as the army establishes.

This is the case with the navy. The system of various combat divisions and local garrisons on the mainland division has been formed, and the only difference is the name change. With the rename of the navy, the name change of the army has been officially launched. However, compared with the reallocation and adjustment of ships and personnel, the system of the army will remain basically unchanged, at least it should be the same before the Northern Expedition.

After October, the government orders of the Qi Palace were issued one after another, and the army and the people had an influence, but overall they still maintained a trend of striving for stability in the past two years. However, with the arrival of the winter moon, everything changed completely with the convening of the Qi Palace joint meeting at the beginning of the winter moon.

At the meeting, Chen Wen vigorously rebuked the officials of the four prefectures of Susongchang Town, Nanzhili for the work of clearing the fields in Zhangzhou and issued an order to send a working team to implement the official position immediately after discovering problems in clearing the fields in Zhangzhou and replenishing the work force by adding additional measures.

Susongchang Town is the richest place in Jiangnan, and its tax output is twice that of other places. This is related to the heavy tax imposed by the Ming court on this, but more importantly, the land around the Taihu Lake area is indeed very fertile, and it has an absolute advantage in terms of output compared to other places.

The development of agriculture, suitable economic crops, and the coastal areas are more conducive to the development of maritime trade. In addition, the Ming court's policy of exemption from the literati and officials, and the policy preferences of the Donglin Party for Southeast maritime trade, mining, handicrafts and other aspects after the Donglin Party came to power, the wealth accumulated by the literati was unimaginable. Not to mention anything else, after the Qing Dynasty determined that Jiangnan was unlikely to be strategically hit by the Ming army in Fujian, it not only hit the rebellious will of the gentry in Jiangnan, but also achieved the compensation for the fiscal deficit by searching the property.

The gentry in Jiangnan was strong, and this was the base of the Donglin Party. Compared with Zhejiang and Jiangxi, in the ninth year of Yongli, Jiergalang and Chen Wen respectively carried out two rounds of attacks on the crimes of anti-Qing and colluding with the Qing court to murder righteous men against the Qing Dynasty. However, their strength was still strong and their resistance to the work of Qingzhangtianmu was the strongest.
Chapter completed!